Demis Hassabis has a blunt message for parts of the AI startup world: Some of this looks unsustainable. The DeepMind cofounder and CEO said in an episode of “Google DeepMind: The Podcast” published Tuesday that there are likely “bubbles” forming in today’s AI funding frenzy, particularly among early-stage startups raising money at huge valuations. Some…
Young people entering the job market are facing the toughest conditions in years — but artificial intelligence isn’t the reason. A new analysis from a London-based economics consultancy suggests something much more old-fashioned is going on: Companies simply aren’t hiring. Since 2023, unemployment among new entrants to the US labor force has jumped more than…
Elon Musk says the US debt problem has only one escape hatch: AI. Musk, in a conversation with investor and podcaster Nikhil Kamath published on Sunday, said that the only way out of America’s deepening fiscal hole is productivity driven by AI and robotics. “That’s pretty much the only thing that’s going to solve for…
A high school dropout learned machine learning with ChatGPT. Now he’s a research scientist at OpenAI working on Sora. Gabriel Petersson said on an episode of the “Extraordinary” podcast published on Thursday that he’s in a job traditionally only done by people with doctorate degrees because he was able to learn machine learning through ChatGPT….
